Angry over denial of party ticket to his younger daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav from Sambhal for the Lok Sabha polls, Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh is unlikely to campaign for the party and alliance candidates during the election.
Mulayam is also said to be unhappy with the idea of Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati, along with Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal leaders, campaigning for him in Mainpuri. Mulayam is the SP candidate from Mainpuri.
Since the very beginning, Mulayam has been against the SP-BSP alliance in which the SP had to part with over 40 of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. Recently, the SP founder had publicly admonished his son and party Chief Akhilesh Yadav for forging an alliance with the BSP, saying, “You have ruined the party... the SP could have won over two dozen seats on its own without the alliance.”